I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
PT-boat on the way to Havana
I used to make a living, man
Pickin' the banana.
Now I'm a guide for the CIA
Hooray for the USA!
Baby, baby, make me a loco
Baby, baby, make me a mambo.
Sent to spy on a Cuban talent show
First stop, Havana au go-go
I used to make a living, man
Pickin' the banana
Hooray for Havana!
Baby, baby, make me a loco
Baby, baby, make me a mambo
I used to make a living, man
Pickin' the banana.
Now I'm a guide for the CIA
Hooray for the USA!
Baby, baby, make me a loco
Baby, baby, make me a mambo.
Sent to spy on a Cuban talent show
First stop, Havana au go-go
I used to make a living, man
Pickin' the banana
Hooray for Havana!
Baby, baby, make me a loco
Baby, baby, make me a mambo
Lyrics submitted by ANTWANmyMAN, edited by Mellow_Harsher
Havana Affair Lyrics as written by Jeff Hyman Douglas Colvin
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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this was a tribute to the ramones, this song rox so much
this is a ramones song!!! great how they can change the style of a song like this they can do anything with music
Kul song.If you wana know he meaning go on the ramones thinggy
I actually think this is the best cover I have ever heard. They changed the total style of the song, and did a magnificant job!
Great cover. I mean, if RHCP can pull off doing a Ramones cover [not to mention SLOWING DOWN a Ramones song] they're unstoppable.
Great Cover!! It amazing what they did to his song, also ramones song is cool but in a different way!
I love this cover! I wish they would have exchanged it from a song off of By The Way. I dont know about you, but I'm not emotinally attached to the song "Throw Away Your Television". But, this cover is amazing in every aspect.
can someone please tell me the meaning on this page, cause on the ramones page everyone just talks shit about how rhcp did a cover and did a terrible job. (which is soooooo far fetched) casue this version is just soo damn good. and i dont feel like sitting and reading pples negative opinions on my favorite band everr...it gets me sooo mad! haha
i absolutely agree with u nicolelovesrhcp.. the chili peppers did their job well by turning this song into another damn good cover. it's clearly 180 degrees different with the original version by the ramones, but i think it's just as great as the original ones. great job, guys..!!!
ANTWANmyMAN - its not a tribute to the ramones, its a cover of a ramones song. x